The Art of Nature Coloring Book: 60 Illustrations Inspired by Vintage Botanical and Scientific Prints

Nice thick pages and has a vintage feel. Perfect for most mediums. However all of the images were very faint as though the printer ran out of ink or the printer was set to save as much ink as possible...

I have several coloring books that are the traditional "color within the lines" which I love. Very relaxing. This book is a little different, but also relaxing. It is a beautiful book. Coloring-wise it kicks it up a notch and tasks you to exercise a different approach, a little more creative -- not only with shading, but with choosing your colors. I like that.My approach is to "Google" a picture/image of the piece I am coloring -- for example, "Rutabaga" -- pick a Google image, and then model my coloring along those lines, at least as a starting point. Maybe changing it up a bit, or punching up the color, but a little bit realistic, like the actual thing. The reviewer that mentioned using darker, more saturated colors in the shaded parts of these drawings was spot on -- that approach adds a whole other dimension to the drawing. You're still within the lines, but flexing your creativity in another way. I love my other color books, but right now am really loving the change of this one. It's fun!!To me, it's still structured and relaxing, but with the shading and beautiful imagery I find it more creative, more enjoyable than what I've been doing with the coloring-within-the-lines approach. I love that too though! I just appreciate the change and the variation here.I'm using Prismacolor and the smooth buff paper is holding up pretty well. Absolutely love this book.

It's a very thick book (many pages) that you could paint on without fear of it bleeding through or use any other media (gel pens, colored pencils, etc). The pictures are grand! For that reason I have to give it 5 stars! A creative teacher might used them as a teaching tool for a science class (home school, public school, etc., parents who want to enrich child learning). An adult who loved these pictures and wants to duplicate them might enjoy working with them, framing the finished picture to decorate a room or give as a gift.Now let me tell you why I donated it to the Activities Person here at the Meadows. These pictures are famous to me. I feel they should be colored like the originals. I don't want to find the originals on line and color them in accordingly. I want to jump off the edge and feel free to "do it my way". Other people may not care, may never saw the reference. This is my gift to them. I've still got plenty to enjoy!

Just got this coloring book recently and I love it.I noticed that some people complained about the light lines, so I have a few bits of advice:- With darker colors, take your colored pencil, apply pressure to darken (burnish) the color pigment that lays on the paper and trace along the grey lines (for example, in the lemon drawing, press harder with a green pencil on the leaf lines).- Then, you may lightly go over the rest of the area in that color. Try using a colorless blender (which is essentially a pencil without pigment, just wax/oil) to smooth it out. This may lighten the color slightly, so layer over it again with your colored pencil. Doing this helps diminish the "grainy look".If your finished piece is something you want to display, don't forget to spray it with a workable fixatif to prevent any smudging.Personally I loved the octopus and seahorse pages the most, but they were all beautiful.

Pretty good condition. Slightly dirty but it is a matt finish paper book. Arrived in a timely manner.

The illustrations are beautiful! I’m going to cut the page out and use them as framed decor around the house!

This book is gorgeous. However, there's not much need to color. The illustrations are very intricate and most of them are done with extensive shading in greyscale. You could get away with some colored pencils but I think it would be hard to make anything else look right. This book is exactly what I wanted- I saw it at a brick and mortar bookstore for twice the price and decided I'd pick it up when I found it here! The paper is nice and smooth and the printing is clear. Colored pencil goes on like a dream but I can't vouch for whether markers or other ink would bleed through to the other side.

I ordered this last Thursday and was expecting it tomorrow or later but happily it arrived today. Sure it's a tad dogeared at the corners from travel but it was well kept in its personal cardboard sleeve [you know if you've ever ordered books else where as well] and would be as good as off a book shelf. Now it's almost a pity to put any color into this amazing illustrations but either way they're getting hung up. Thank you to Amazon and F+W Media.

This is such a disappointment. Very poor indeed. The content could be fantastic but unfortunately the botanical greyscale prints are blurred and mushy, almost as though the printing ink has bled, with grossly ill-defined lines, and many are over-shaded as a result. The back cover states that the illustrations are printed on “perforated artist-quality vellum”. What rubbish! That’s just not true. The paper in my book is very thin and floppy, dark cream/yellow, and such poor, cheap-and-nasty quality that it’s not even as good as a pound shop toddler’s colouring book (see photo, with a piece of cheap white copier paper laid alongside for comparison.). The paper is so thin I can easily see through to the print on the following page(s). It’s totally misrepresented in the description. And the pages aren’t even perforated as stated, should I by some remote chance want to detach them.The back cover also states that the book “guides you”. How?! There are just poor quality prints - nothing else is included.I think it’s hugely over-priced and so bad I’m thinking it might even be a knock-off copy.I have many colouring books and this is the worst quality I’ve seen. Avoid avoid avoid.

The best "colouring book" for adults that I have ever come across and believe me I have tried a few! The drawing are fabulous and when completed they, with the whole page are easily removed from the book. My biggest gripe re these books is the quality of the paper, no concerns here, the paper is perfect! I would recommend this to all and everyone, I love it!

This is amazing. I love all of the images and the pages are one sided so you can carefully remove an image and frame it when you are happy with your colouring in. If you use rubber stamps you will probably have a collection of ink pads and these could also be used if you mask off areas. Absolutely brilliant.

This is a proper adult colouring book, simply no comparison to the standard ones you see topping the charts. Each image is a work of art similar in style to classic naturalist art pieces, delicate lines and subtle shading, just perfect.This, and the Kew gardens botanical books are on a different level.

Beautiful book, paper a little thin but not like Amazon paper, images are from vintage sketches, great value xx